# mature
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /məˈtjʊə/, /məˈt͡ʃʊə/, /məˈt͡ʃɔː/
** (Standard Southern British) IPA: [mət͡ʃoː]
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/, /məˈt͡ʃɝ/, /məˈt(j)ʊəɹ/
* Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From late Middle English mature, from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”).

#### Adjective

mature (comparative more mature, superlative most mature)
* Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
    She is quite mature for her age.
    The excellent mature eggplants grown in the garden plot are quickly being picked up by family and friends.
* Brought to a state of complete readiness.
    a mature plan
* Profound; careful.
    The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
* (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
* (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
    mature content

##### Synonyms

* (grown up in terms of physical appearance): adult, grown; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
* (grown up in terms of behaviour or thinking): adultish, grown up; see also Thesaurus:mature
* (suitable for adults only): adult; see also Thesaurus:for adults

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “grown up”): childish, immature
* (antonym(s) of “profound”): superficial

##### Derived terms

* maturation
* mature-age student
* maturely
* mature minor
* matureness
* mature student
* maturity
* sexually mature

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English maturen, from Middle French maturer (“to mature”), from Latin mātūrō.

#### Verb

mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)
* (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
    Synonyms: develop, grow, progress, ripen
** 1797, Mr. Harrison, “A Biographical Sketch of Hogarth”, in The Comick Magazine‎, volume 1, London: Harrison and Co., page 3:[…] his originality, in the mean time, was maturing to perfection.
* (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
    Synonyms: ripen, ripen up
** 1670, John Evelyn, chapter 35, in Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-trees‎, London, page 246:[…] Trees […] have alwayes Fruit upon them, ripe, or preparing to mature;
* (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
** 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost‎, book 1, lines 659–660:[…] But these thoughts Full Counsel must mature:
** 1768, John Hoole, Cyrus: A Tragedy‎, London: T. Davies, act I, page 12:[…] much it now Imports they should be still deceiv’d, till time Matures our enterprize;
** 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, New York: Harper, Chapter 13, p. 262,:[…] I did not interrupt her, I was so busy maturing a plan I had had in my mind for some days […]
** 1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 8, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC, page 143:[…] the long clean groove of her upper lip was ready to go into motion, as if she were going to break her silence with something momentous and long-matured; explain love to me, perhaps.
* (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
    Synonym: ripen
** 1782, William Cowper, “Charity”, in Poems‎, London: J. Johnson, page 202:[…] a ship well freighted with the stores The sun matures on India’s spicy shores,
** 2009, Hugh Findlay, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits‎:There are certain vegetables like the tomato which require a long period to mature the fruit, and these must be started several weeks before the frosts have passed.
* (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
    Synonyms: age, develop, grow up; see also Thesaurus:to age
* (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:make older
** 1776, Hannah Cowley, The Runaway‎, London: Prologue:Then Tom shall have his kite, and Fan new dollies, Till time matures them for important follies.
** 1970, Robertson Davies, chapter 2, in Fifth Business‎, part 6, Toronto: Macmillan, page 103:[…] what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured me;
* (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
    When the bond matures, the full face value is payable to its bearer.

##### Synonyms

* maturate

##### Derived terms

* maturable
* mature up

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* tamure

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French mature, borrowed from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.tyʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Switzerland):(file)
* Homophones: maturent, matures

### Adjective

mature (plural matures)
* (of a person) mature

### Verb

mature
* inflection of maturer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “mature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈtu.re/
* Rhymes: -ure
* Hyphenation: ma‧tù‧re

### Adjective

mature f pl
* feminine plural of maturo

### Anagrams

* murate, mutare, muterà, tamurè

## Latin
### Adjective

mātūre
* vocative masculine singular of mātūrus

### Adverb

mātūrē (comparative mātūrius, superlative mātūrissimē)
* early, speedy, ripe, mature, mellow, timely, seasonable

### References

* “mature”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “mature”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* mature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* mature - Latin is Simple Online Dictionary

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Middle French mature and its etymon Latin mātūrus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /maːˈtiu̯r(ə)/

#### Adjective

mature (rare, Late Middle English)
* mature (ripe)
* mature (careful)

##### Descendants

* English: mature

##### References

* “mā̆tūre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mature
* Alternative form of matere

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

mature
* Alternative form of maturen

## Portuguese
### Verb

mature
* inflection of maturar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative